Oral history; interview with Dr. Walter Taylor, May 11, 2012, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University. Taylor earned his Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Education at Virginia State College and his Master’s degree in Agricultural...

Jas. K. Varadaman writes to Stone regarding her son. She asks that he be excused from blacksmith duty as it is causing his eyes to hurt. She then sends a letter giving him permission to come home and spend time with his family at Christmas. In...

Oral history; interview with Dr. Vance Watson, conducted December 7, 2011, at Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University. Watson, a Missouri native, first came to Mississippi State in 1966 as an Assistant Professor of Agronomy. He...

Oral history, interview with Mr. Joe E. Askew, Jr., November 12, 2012, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University. Mr. Askew was born in Starkville, MS, in 1948. He first came to Mississippi State University in 1967 and completed his...

Letter from Sophie Boyd Hays in La Grange, Tennessee, to ''Lit'' (Matilda A. Boyd Webb), mentioning the likely secession of Virginia and regretting that young men are leaving school to sign up for the army, 1861. She also discusses dressmaking and...

Oral history; interview with William M. Bost, conducted on March 20, 2012 at Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University. Dr. Bost was born in Ecru, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, in 1924 and grew up on a farm. After serving in the...

Letter from William Sykes in Winona, Mississippi, to James Sykes, bemoaning the reelection of Abraham Lincoln, the end of his hopes for peace, and the impoverished and demoralized state of the Confederacy. He mentions the murder of a Captain...

Letter, Alex W. Feemster in Selma, Alabama, to his wife, Loulie Feemster. He writes that he saw the Royal Arch degree (a Masonic rank) conferred. He assures her that ''it is not in me to love a dollar'' and refers to ''The Widow Bedott'' stories...

Oral history; interview with Marco W. Nicovich, Research Photographer, conducted on April 23, 2012, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University. Nicovich was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1947. He first came to Mississippi State...

In a series of correspondence, all with last names beginning with the letter P. December 20, 1899, M. Perkins writes to Stone giving his son permission to come home for Christmas. August 18, 1889 a father writes to Stone inquiring about the...

Letter, Alex W. Feemster in Selma, Alabama, to his wife, Loulie Feemster, who has traveled to Enterprise, Mississippi. He tells her that his hand is swollen and that he is fighting ''a feeling of gloom and despondency.'' Charly wrote with an...